JVM Segfaults when installing Matlab Distributed on Rocks CentOS Cluster

Question

At work, I am trying to install Matlab Distributed Computing Server R2011a on a Rocks CentOS Cluster. Following the instructions, I mount the ISO and run ./install &. The installer shows a splash screen but then crashes and outputs the error message below.

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0000003d39471c7c, pid=29673, tid=1105340736

JRE version: 6.0_17-b04 Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (14.3-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 ) Problematic frame: C [libc.so.6+0x71c7c]

If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp

My boss and I found an article at http://greg.porter.name/wiki/HowTo:MatlabOnRocks by someone who has the exact same problem, but never figured out how to fix it. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If anyone has found a fix, I would be very interested in knowing what steps you took to fix this problem.

Answer 1

Sounds like a "try to run things on an unsupported platform"-issue.

In this kind of problems, ensure that you do this on a platform explicitly stated to support this combination. I do not believe that CentOS is a supported Oracle JVM platform.

Answer 2

It seem to be a general problem of java on memory limits set by cluster manager. We are encounter this problem with SGE on Fedora Core 13. see bug on fedora Solution is to set limits to ~ 4 Go (not easy all the time ...) or set environment